Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b08c134baeadf942…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.1 KB Created: 2021-05-24 05:48:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ed40755d8841c4f29892e01ce6d9c8c5 SHA-1: 1934abf81c8536789581c1428de04fe57b1ac2f0 SHA-256: b08c134baeadf942cf48ef4bb9b7954a3b3e5ddba19829e41d7aaf07d43761a2
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The document contains numerous links, many pointing to compromised WordPress sites, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The embedded URLs likely lead to phishing sites or malware downloads, and the document body's deceptive title indicates a lure to encourage user interaction with these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=study+guide+for+human+anatomy+and+physiology+chapter+17+blood+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://arenda1s.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8b0dc9eb4d5d571b18764341352e4089/tojijimena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cdcaf3f2ea---guwuvefepaxawezoxedorok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/adae345c742e2f080f817d992e8cf966/53782650281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spencershaulageltd.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c374cce4b9293a41168a503a070ae34/4650795743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://woonhuislift.info/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084e7af41183---77960941314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://plenaadoracao.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160946fa031854---vewizarodepisizudokemekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.numberoneporthill.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a908ca5d692---foxojew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://henri-ruch.ch/doc_pub/file/70980675444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kfz-gutachter-oliver-schiller.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606f891022eb1---41684355657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wbbray.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606e02083ec14---nabudawusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160856514935b2---vonatap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608a21b89cd14---xuxidolizuvezutubusepak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.unicodesystems.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fboomtjpajueb5idsmi0cto2a7/luvuwonogozabatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baoholaodong24.com/userfiles/file/rovugamanabusof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://munord.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/46984ea73f98d493f61c8d1001374637/44919152495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sarajevo-inn-grunewald.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16082cad7479bb---dapes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gk-termopanel.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d65a8b8502f73c0023b9f34fe5eceb75/kenozepizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/77f93806f659001743106f4a6f76eae9/sijixigebepoxadanajewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d440.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD440 6140 bytes
SHA-256: 194b55200e3939bb280738f36d11ca4f3b1cbd516865c77a31caa40f291ff691
font_01_sfnt_off0000e91b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE91B 9800 bytes
SHA-256: da7a46636913ba285d30538721d6dc5aea2dfe057b970146eaf6b6c4f1dfadfe